The Mexican government charged
73 suspects in the killings of 183 people whose bodies were
recovered during April in mass graves near the US border,
prosecutors said.
The defendants were booked in different jails in
Mexico yesterday while waiting to see a federal judge, said
Ricardo Najera, spokesman for federal Attorney General's
Office.
The government had in the past weeks announced the
detention of 74 people, including several police officers who
allegedly protected gang members, but Najera said no one had
been charged until yesterday.
He said more suspects were in custody of the federal
government pending charges, but he didn't know the number.
It wasn't clear which specific crimes the 73 suspects
were charged with, but officials said they were related to the
grisly discovery of 183 corpses in San Fernando, a town 137
kilometres from the border at Brownsville, Texas. AP
